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    Allow filespace deletion for non-replicated nodes without blocking replication stgrule execution

    Currently, a replication storage rule fails when a delete filespace is already running. The following messages is issued: ANR1079E Storage rule REPLICATION did not start a tiering process because a DELETE FILESPACE operation is in progress. I can ...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Storage Rule Exclude Function

    Today when you create a Storage Rule Replication you can either assign all nodes or exclude all nodes and then create a subrule and include/exclude specific nodes. In our case do we have a 2 Sites solution where we replicate data between sites, th...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Tag Data Mover available on folder level

    Hello Currently it's not possible to configure Data Mover on a folder vmware for all VMs of this one and you have to do it manually one by one. And we have to not forget to do it each time a new vm is placed in this folder. Thanks for adding this ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

    How to calculate backed data volume on Replication / SPPArchive / Cloud storage?

    HalloBacked up date is storing on BACKUP vsnap and then are copied to REPLCATION VSNAP (and maybe Cloud, SPPArchive/tape) We can easily calculate size of backed up date on BACKUP vsnap based on output from this endpoint: "/api/endeavour/catalog/re...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

    remove systemV init.d script for DSMCAD

    The current packaging of TIVsm-BA includes a symbolic link /etc/init.d/dsmcad -> /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/rc.dsmcad which results in the creation of the directory /etc/init.d if it does not already exist. This is incompatible with the chkc...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

    SPF-I-3280 .. regarding this idea .. can you please explain how this function is working

    There is a customer requirement to generate a report from event table .. to have a daily overview from client backup .. to have start time, endtime, and status from each backup. Additionally the customer need the output from the client, which Mgmt...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

    certify with cisco NX-OS 8.4 (2a)

    actually the nx-os Version of the cisco MDS 9700 8.4(2a) is not certify with spectrum control .. but this version is not the last .. and we need to have this version certify to able to have some support on it !
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

    Spectrum Control not capturing real time hardware failures from DS8800

    we noticed our installed spectrum control isn't capturing real time failures from our enrolled IBM DS8k storage systems. cable and drive failures are not captured. kindly help optimize this so we can easily monitor our storages from the spectrum c...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

    Values also in "extents" in Spectrum Control capacity reports

    Actually, the capacity reports provided by Spectrum Control have values only expressed in GiB. Since they are normally also available in extents (for example in the DS8000) it would be useful to have them also with this unit of measurement, adding...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Under review

    Support for SUSE K8s

    would be useful to have more than OpenShift in the field
    10 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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